“Andrew Jackson, in the principle lobby of his White Home had a giant block of cheese. The block of cheese was big, over two tons, and it was there for any and all who is perhaps hungry. Jackson wished the White Home to belong to the individuals, so infrequently, he opened his doorways to those that wished an viewers…”
That’s the late, nice John Spencer as Leo McGarry in Season 1, Episode 5 of The West Wing, giving his Large Block of Cheese Day speech to the senior employees within the Roosevelt Room. I like to consider this mailbag as FanGraphs’ personal Large Block of Cheese Day. We open issues up for you, our readers, to ask no matter questions you’ve got for us, and like Leo, I comb by way of them and delegate a few of them out to our employees to reply. (It’s enjoyable to think about myself Meg’s chief of employees, and on this FanGraphs-as-West Wing analogy, Baumann is certainly Josh Lyman.) And as is the case within the Large Block of Cheese Day episodes, we at FanGraphs all the time stroll away extra enlightened baseball followers after answering your questions.
Large Block of Cheese Day got here to thoughts for this mailbag due to a query I acquired this week that we are going to get to momentarily. However earlier than then, I’d wish to remind all of you that whereas anybody can submit a query, this mailbag is unique to FanGraphs Members. If you happen to aren’t but a Member and wish to hold studying, you’ll be able to join a Membership right here. It’s the easiest way to each expertise the location and assist our employees, and it comes with a bunch of different nice advantages. Additionally, in case you’d wish to ask a query for an upcoming mailbag, ship me an e mail at mailbag@fangraphs.com.